GALAXY in a Sentence

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For GALAXY, below is one of 8 sentences:
To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALAXY
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galaxy
 n.  large, isolated system of stars, as the Milky Way; any collection of brilliant personalities
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1  Radio signals received from the galaxy's centre back up the black hole theory.
2  Within our own galaxy there are probably tens of thousands of planetary systems.
3  Future generations will probably publish guides to the galaxy.
4  At least one supernova occurs per decade in our galaxy.
5  The pressures that would intrude from the galaxy would defeat our purpose.
6  Give me a sky and I'll show you what a galaxy is all about.
7  A string of 13 dwarf galaxies in orbit around the massive galaxy Andromeda are not behaving as they should.
8  To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.